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Tag Archives: Policy Development
Health Inequalities, Social Inequality and Inequalities in Life Expectancy: Recent History and Policy Implications (King’s Fund)
Summary It has been known for some time that persons living in neighbourhood areas with higher levels of income deprivation have statistically lower life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy. This relationship has become known as the “Marmot curve”. This report … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Absolute or Relative Deprivation, Access to Work, Accessible Countryside, Accessible Natural Greenspace Standard (ANGSt), Accessible Sport and Play, Active and Safe Travel, Active England Programme, Activity Agreement and Entry to Learning Pilots, Activity Agreement Pilots, Adult Education in Gloucestershire (AdEd), Adult Learning Services, Affluence and Health Inequalities, Affluent Areas in England, Affordable Warmth Access Referral Mechanism, Affordable Warmth Access Referral Mechanism in Greater Manchester, Ageing Policy in the UK, Alcohol, Alcohol and Drug Consumption, Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Misuse, Area Deprivation, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research, Community Health Profiles, Demographics, Demography, Deprivation indices, Devo Manc Area, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Family of Marmot Curves 1999–2003, Glasgow Effect, Government Policy, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Reform, Health and Wellbeing, Health and Wellbeing Boards, Health Equity, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities and the Living Wage, Health Inequalities in Childhood, Health Inequalities in England, Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit, Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit (London Health Observatory), Health Policy, Health Work and Well-being, Home to School Transition, Housing and Mental Health, Housing and Public Health, Improving Access to Green Spaces, Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT), Improving Local Public Health, Improving Workplace Health, Income Inequality and Health, Incomes and Poverty, Increasing Employment Opportunities, Inequalities in Infant Mortality, Inequalities in Life Expectancy, Inequality in Healthy Life Expectancy, Living Wage and Health Inequalities, Local Action on Health Inequalities, Local Action on Health Inequalities Series, Local Action on Reducing Health Inequalities, Local Authorities, Local Authority-Based Public Health Teams (LAPH), Local Community, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Government Policy, Local Green Spaces, Local Groups, Local Plans and Growth Plans, Local Populations, Local Public Health, Local Public Health Services, Local Public Health Specialists, Local Public Health System Functions, Low Income and Health Inequalities, Making Better Decisions on Public Health Spending, Making the Case for Public Health Interventions (King's Fund), Marmot Curve, Marmot Principles, Marmot Review, Measures of Inequality, Middle Super Output Areas (MSOAs), Minimum Income Standard (MIS), Modifiable Risk Factors, MSOA-Level Data, Policy Development, Return on Investment From Public Health Interventions, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), Smoking, Social Deprivation, Social Determinants of Health, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Economic and Environmental Determinant, Social Epidemiology, Social Gradient in Life Expectancy, Social Inequality, Social Inequality and Inequalities in Life Expectancy, Social Patterning of Health over the Lifecourse, Social Return on Investment (SROI), State of Child Health (RCPCH 2017)
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Government Launches Mental Health Taskforce (Department of Health / NHS England)
Summary The Deputy Prime Minister has established, and will chair, a Mental Health Taskforce, which will include Cabinet ministers from across government departments. A number of issues will be examined urgently. “The taskforce will include the Secretary of State for … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Access to Mental Health Services, Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia, Attitudes to Mental Illness, Chris Grayling: Justice Secretary, Community Health Services, Community Mental Health Services, Costs of Mental Ill Health in London, Costs of Mental Illness, Crisis Care Concordat, Danny Alexander Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Dementia and Mental Illness, Department of Work and Pensions, Deputy Prime Minister's Office, Discrimination, Discrimination: Mental Health, Dr Geraldine Strathdee: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Mental Health, Education Health and Defence (UK Government), Employment Advisers (EAs), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Eric Pickles: Communities Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith: Work and Pensions Secretary, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme, Integrated Employment Support in IAPT, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), Integrated Physical and Mental Health, Integrated Trusts, Interaction between Physical and Mental Health, Jacqui Dyer: Mental Health Taskforce Vice Chair and Expert by Experience, Long-Term Mental Illness, Mental Health Care, Mental Health Challenge for Local Authorities, Mental Health Co-Morbidities, Mental Health Commissioning, Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat, Mental Health Inequalities, Mental Health Policy Group, Mental Health Statistics, Mental Health Taskforce, Mental Health Taskforce (UK Government), Mental Illness in the NHS, Mental Illness Prevention, Mental Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing and Older People, Mental Wellbeing and Work, Mind, National Information Board (NIB), National Liaison and Diversion Service, National Prevention Board (Public Health England), National Strategy for Mental Health to 2020, New Models of Care, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), Nick Clegg: Former Deputy Prime Minister, Nicky Morgan: Education Secretary, No Health Without Mental Health, No Health Without Mental Health Strategy, Older People’s Mental Health Services, Parity of Esteem, Partnership Working, Paul Farmer (Mind), Paul Farmer: Chair of Mental Health Taskforce, Policy Development, Prejudice, Prevalence of Mental Illness, Prison Health, Psychological Therapies, Psychological Wellbeing and Work, Public Mental Health, Public Mental Health Commissioning, Reducing Stigma, Rethink Mental Illness, Theresa May: Former Home Secretary, Vince Cable: Business Secretary, Workplace Interventions
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NHS Funding Shortage Forecast: Debate Proposed (BBC News / Times / House of Commons Health Select Committee / Nuffield Trust / Independent)
Summary Nine influential signatories to a letter published in the Times have asked for a national debate on how the NHS in England is funded. The authors of this letter assert that challenges from an ageing and growing population, plus … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Agency Staff, Agency Staff (Exorbitant Waste of NHS Funding), Allyson Pollock: Queen Mary University of London, Any Qualified Provider (AQP), BBC Health News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4: More or Less Programme, Benefits of Integrated Care, BMJ, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Cancer Care Integraton in Staffordshire, Cancer Test Waiting Times, Care UK, Cathy Warwick: Chief Executive of Royal College of Midwives, CCGs in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health: Queen Mary University of London, Chris Hopson: Foundation Trust Network, Chris Hopson: Foundation Trust Network (FTN), Ciaran Devane: Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, Ciaran Devane: Macmillan Cancer Support, Clive Efford (Labour MP), Commissioners’ Income and Expenditure, Commissioning Private Sector Providers, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Conservative Conference (Birmingham: September 2014), Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Creeping Privatisation in NHS (sic), Cross-Boundary Care Pathway Redesign, Demand-Side Factors, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Demographics, Derriford Hospital (Plymouth), Diabetes and Multiple Morbidities, Dr Dan Poulter (Former Health Minister), Dr David Richmond: President of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Dr Hilary Cass: President of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Dr John Middleton: Acting President of Faculty of Public Health, Dr Mark Porter: Chair of Council at British Medical Association, Dr Maureen Baker: Chair of Royal College of General Practitioners, Dr Peter Carter: Chief Executive and General Secretary at Royal College of Nursing, Dr Peter Swinyard: GP Swindon and National Chairman of The Family Doctor Association, Faculty of Public Health (FPH), Financial Constraints, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Sustainability of NHS Bodies (PAC Report 2015), FOI: Freedom of information, Former Conservative Health Minister Dr Dan Poulter, Foundation Trust Network (FTN), Fragility of NHS Finances, Guardian, Health Leaders' Panel (Nuffield Trust), Health Policy, Health Policy Conversation, Henny Braund: Chief Executive of Anthony Nolan, Hinchingbrooke Hospital (Privatisation), House of Care Model, House of Commons Health Select Committee, House of Commons Health Select Committee (HSC), Independent Commission on Whole Person Care, Integrated Care and Support, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Jean-Pierre van Besouw: Royal College of Anaesthetists, Jeremy Hughes (Alzheimer’s Society Chief Executive), Lesley Anne Alexander: Chief Executive of Royal National Institute of Blind People, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Long-Term Conditions and The Mandate, Lord Adebowale: Turning Point, Macmillan Cancer Support, Managing Care of People With Long-Term Conditions, Margaret Hodge, Maureen Baker: Royal College of GPs, McKesson, Michelle Mitchell: Chief Executive of the MS Society, Moira Auchterlonie: Chief Executive of Family Doctor Association, More or Less Programme (BBC Radio 4), Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, Multimorbidity, National Health Policy Conversation, National Strategy for Long Term Conditions, NHS Budget Spent on Commissioning Private Sector Providers, NHS Cannock Chase CCG, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Charges: Politics and History, NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS Expenditure, NHS Funding Gap, NHS North Staffordshire CCG, NHS Privatisation Debate (sic), NHS Reform, NHS Reinstatement Bill (2015), NHS Resource Spending in England, NHS Spending, NHS Stafford and Surrounds CCG, NHS Timebomb [sic], NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure, Nicholson Challenge, Nuffield Trust: Health Leaders' Panel, Numbers of the Year 2014: BBC Radio 4; 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Government Response Health Select Committee’s Report on Public Health England (Department of Health)
Summary The government has responded to the House of Commons Health Select Committee (HSC) report on Public Health England, published in February 2014. The response addresses concerns about PHE’s independence, policy work and relationship with the government. PHE has to be … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Policies on Ageing (Centre for Policy on Ageing)
Summary This online resource, from the Centre for Policy on Ageing, offers an easy to browse list of important policy documents, reports and briefings relating to issues concerning the care of older people and broader implications of an ageing population. … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Age and Ageing, Age UK, Ageing, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageing Research Reviews, Ageing Society, Ageing With Dementia, Anchor, Centre for Policy on Ageing, CPA: Centre for Policy on Ageing, Economic Policy, Government Policy, Health Policy, Healthy Ageing, Housing Policy, Independent Age, International Longevity Centre UK, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Local Government Policy, New Models of Ageing, Policies on Ageing, Policy Development, Policy Innovation, Ready for Ageing Alliance, Social Care Policy, Social Policy and Society
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Fife Dementia Strategy: Supporting User Participation in Local Policy Development (Social Policy and Society)
Summary This article reviews the consultation process employed in the development of the Fife Dementia Strategy. Stakeholder engagement and involvement was encouraged and had influence on the final strategy. The involvement of people with dementia was considered to be vital, … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, For Social Workers (mostly), National, Quick Insights, Scotland, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Consultation, Dementia Services Development Centre, Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC), Dementia Services Development Centre (University of Stirling), DSDC: Stirling Dementia Services Development Centre, Engagement, Fife Dementia Strategy, Health and Social Care, Local Authorities, Local Government Policy, Local Policy Development, Policy Development, Service Users, Social Care, Social Care Provision, Social Policy and Society, Stakeholder Involvement, Targeting Hard-to-Reach Groups, University of Stirling, University of Warwick, User Involvement, User Participation, Warwick Medical School: University of Warwick
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